Big Green Challenge : the people-powered innovation prize from NESTA
What is the Big Green Challenge?
We’re facing one of the biggest challenges of our generation - climate change. At NESTA, we believe that encouraging people to work together will help find new ways - better ways - to tackle BIG problems, like reducing CO2 emissions. That’s why we’ve developed a unique and exciting competition – with a £1 million prize fund - the Big Green Challenge from NESTA.
People powered… who can take part?
All of us can help to reduce CO2 emissions in our community, but the £1 million prize fund is designed to encourage and reward people working together to develop new approaches to saving energy. So, the competition is only open to organisations or groups of people. These will need to be formally constituted as ‘not-for-profit‘, although newly formed groups can apply for this status later.
What’s involved?
We’re challenging competitors to make big reductions in CO2 in their communities - which can be local, regional or more widely dispersed.
We announed the Big Green Challenge competitors in early April. Find out more here.
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Last night I was lucky enough to attend the Ashden Awards. The evening celebrated the achievements of the shortlisted entrants and generated much inspiration (congratulations to one of our Big Green Challengers - Global Action Plan, who won the UK community project category). The finalist businesses, local authorities, schools and community projects from the UK, Africa, South […]
